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by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:40- Categories:
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[Michael Dornisch] was surprised to find that the main processor of the Raspberry Pi reaches about 56 degrees Celsius (about 133 degrees F) while streaming video over the network. He thought it might help the longevity of the device if he was able to cool things off a bit. But why stop with just the processor? He added heat sinks to the SoC, Ethernet/USB chip, and voltage regulator.
From his parts bin he grabbed a small heat sink that was probably used on a graphics card. After measuring the three chips with his digital calipers he cut out the footprint he needed, resulting in three smaller heat sinks. We didn’t realize that thermal compound has enough gripping power to hold the sinks in place without any mechanical fastener, but apparently it does. [Michael] mentions that it’s possible to use other adhesives, like JB Weld. What’s important is that you use something (ie: thermal compound or a liquid adhesive) to prevent any air gap from coming between the chip surface and the aluminum.
He measured the result as a 17.3 degree C (31 degree F) drop in temperature. We looked around and it seems there’s no internal temperature sensor on the Broadcom chip so these surface readings will have to suffice. Do you think this will prolong the life of the board if it is used regularly to play back high quality video? We already know that these temperatures are within the specifications for the hardware.
http://hackaday.com/2012/06/26/addin...-raspberry-pi/ ...by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:39- Categories:
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[Thice] discovered a vulnerability in encrypted portable storage a few years ago. He’s just pointing about the exploit now. He mentions that he notified manufacturers long ago and we’d guess the wait to publish is to give them a chance to patch the exploit.
He calls it the Plug-Over Attack and for those who were involved with original Xbox hacking, this technique will sound very familiar. The Xbox used hard drive keys to lock the device when not in use. When you booted up the console it checked the hardware signature to make sure it was talking to the right motherboard. But if you booted up the device, then swapped the IDE cable over to a computer without cutting the power you could access the drive without having the password.
This attack is pretty much the same thing. Plug in a drive, unlock it on the victim system the normal way, then replug into the attacking system. In the image above you can see that a USB hub will work for this, but you can also use a hacked USB cable that patches a second jack into the power rail. For some reason the encryption system isn’t able to lock itself when the USB enumerates on the new system, only when power is cycled. Some of them have a timer which watches for drive idle but that still doesn’t protect from this exploit.
http://hackaday.com/2012/06/27/encry...-xbox-hacking/ ...by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:36- Categories:
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DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson has hit back at industry "naysayers" proclaiming the death of console gaming in the face of a growing mobile market.
"People are generally correct that things are changing, and a lot of people in this industry are acknowledging that - some people don't want to see it, though," Troedsson, whose studio produces theBattlefield series, told us. "But I would also say the people who are painting such a grim picture of where we're going are wrong."
In fact, far from damaging it, Troedsson believes wholeheartedly that the broadening of available platforms will benefit the traditional game industry.
"Yes, people are playing more on their mobile devices, but I don't see people playing on other SKUs as a problem for triple-A developers, it's actually the contrary," he said. "I think people engaging in any kind of gaming is good for all games, because it means that people will play more.
"I consider myself to be a hardcore, triple-A kind of player, and I definitely play more on my mobile devices now, but I don't play less on my other devices as a result. When I'm home, I want to play games with the absolute most hi-def, best audio, best visuals that I can get out of a gaming session. And that will come from dedicated hardware or a very high-end PC."
While Troedsson wouldn't be drawn on predicting whether or not the next round of hardware will represent the final home console generation, he believes that powerful hardware accessible in the home will remain a permanent aspect of gaming.
"There will always be a demand for games that require a lot of hardware to deliver a really hi-def experience," he explained. "Whether that will be delivered by CPUs and memory sitting in your room, or somewhere else, I don't know. Probably both. But one thing is for sure, people will continue to want to play the best-looking games out there."
Of course, as the head of a company making big-budget home console games, Troedsson position is unsurprising. His sentiments echo those of Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley, who made similar assertions last year.
And if genuine, the recently leaked next-gen Xbox roadmap - which lays out a ten year plan for Microsoft's next assault on the living room - adds additional weight to the continued rude health of console gaming. Even so, it remains a refreshing point of view given the industry-wide gold rush towards the bright, if not so new, frontiers of mobile and free-to-play - areas DICE is itself already experimenting in.
Speaking at GDC Taipei, which took place over the past two days, Ngmoco boss Ben Cousins became the latest industry veteran to predict the death of consoles in the face of mobile.
"There's a potential for mobile gaming to kill console gaming," he said, according to Gamasutra. "I'm talking about a significant reduction of market share with no chance of return."
"I believe Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo won't produce dedicated hardware past the next generation. Further, I believe traditional game companies like EA will be purchased by existing digital companies, or close entirely."
Cousins' was careful to broaden his definition of mobile, however: "When I'm talking about mobile, I'm talking about the operating system, not the device.
"I believe these operating systems will start to appear in other classes of devices, other than just mobile phones and tablets. In the future I think mobile gaming maybe won't be so mobile, and we may need a new definition for them."
http://www.edge-online.com/news/dice...hreat-consoles ...by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:34- Categories:
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Eidos life president Ian Livingstone says the upcoming reboot ofTomb Raider still features a strong, capable heroine and believes reaction to the game's controversial trailer have been blown out of proportion.
Livingstone describes an E3 PR disaster, when executive producer Ron Rosenberg said players would want to “protect Lara”, as a “live interview that went slightly wrong. Quotes were misinterpreted and blown out of proportion,” Livingstone adds.
“There was a momentary threat to Lara which she overcame in two seconds. The reaction has been quite extreme.”
It was never the intention to imply sexual threat to Lara, Livingstone said - and he doesn't see much place for such themes in games in general.
“I think about my responsibility as a developer – films can deal with these themes, but it’s different in games when the user controls the action," he said. “We should be celebrating what’s great about the game.”Livingstone, a keynote speaker at the GameHorizonconference in Newcastle, was keen to celebrate the storied heritage of the Tomb Raider series as he addressed delegates.
He highlighted Lara’s late '90s domination of pop culture through myriad past and present tie-ins, including Larazade – a limited edition Lucozade drink – and some obscure French adverts made to promote SEAT cars.
Overall, this type of brand exposure helped make a total of $1.5bn - not a bad return from a series whose heroine was first perceived as a male Indiana Jones clone.
Establishing IP, Livingstone said, has many uses: by linking Lara with Pepsi, the game’s publisher can bring in more revenue. “Owning a licence is like leasing a gold mine," he said. "Own the gold mine and you can profit from it forever.” He urged developers to create their own IP whenever they have the opportunity.
Despite his love of new IP, Livingstone argues that Lara is ripe for a return 16 years after her debut. “There should always be new icons,” he said. “No-one would advocate binning Lara Croft, just as they wouldn’t want to bin James Bond. She has a huge fan following.
“She has had her ups and downs – The Angel of Darkness was not a great game, though it was aptly named. The fanbase will forgive you if they still love the character.”
For Livingstone, the key to a series’ longevity is to ensure successive iterations always go one better than the ones that came before. And he’s confident that, when Lara's next outing is released next February, the fuss over Rosenberg's interview comments will be swiftly forgotten: “I guarantee fans will be delighted with the newTomb Raider.”
http://www.edge-online.com/news/livi...out-proportion ...by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:31- Categories:
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Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo won't produce dedicated hardware beyond the next generation', says Ben Cousins
Ngmoco’s Ben Cousins has become the latest high-profile games exec to predict the death of the console.
Gamasutra reports that speaking at GDC Taipei the former EA, Sony and Lionhead, Cousins stated: "There's a potential for mobile gaming to kill console gaming. I'm talking about a significant reduction of market share with no chance of return.
"I believe that sometime during the next console generation, globally, both the revenue and the market share for games will be larger in mobile than it is for console.
“I believe Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo won't produce dedicated hardware past the next generation. Further, I believe traditional game companies like EA will be purchased by existing digital companies, or close entirely."
Cousins believes that the decline seen in other dedicated hardware sectors – such as camcorders, GPS devices and MP3 players – is evidence of his belief. And that consoles will be next.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/4...console-gaming
...by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:30- Categories:
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After a series of web attacks forced a number of Japan's government websites offline, a Twitter feed associated with the hacking organisation has admitted responsibility.
Sites for Japan's Finance Ministry, Supreme Court and political parties LDP and DPJ were initially unavailable following the attacks but have since been restored.
The attacks are reportedly a response to the country's new anti-piracy bill which punishes downloaders of copyrighted content with jail terms. The law states that users who willingly download copyrighted content illegally could face fines of up to two million yen, a prison sentence of up to two years, or both.
A statement from the Anonymous website claims that the bill will "result in scores of unnecessary prison sentences to numerous innocent citizens"
Data provided by the Recording Industry Association of Japan has highlighted that 4.36 billion files were illegally downloaded within the country in 2010 alone.
Piracy has been a hot issue recently with PCR reporting last week on the Indian government's decision to unblock The Pirate Bay and other file sharing websites. The UK has seen its own share of piracy controversy too as BT became the latest internet service provider to block access to the controversial site.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...ernment/028582
...by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:27- Categories:
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Californian federal court finds for Apple in patent dispute with Samsung.
In the latest twist in a tortuous saga, Judge Lucy H Koh of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division has banned the sale of the Tab or any similar product on the grounds that it is substantially similar "in the eyes of the ordinary observer" to Apple's iPad.
Apple took action against Samsung over an alleged infringement of Design Patent No. D504,889, which refers to the design of the device.
Needless to say, this is far from the end of the matter. Samsung will appeal, and Apple has been ordered to post a bond for $2.6 million towards any damages if it is decided that Samsung was wronged.
It is just one victory in a tit-for-tat series of lawsuits between the two giants of the handset space, with Apple suing over design and UI issues and Samsung suing back over issues to do with the way the devices connect to networks.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...-the-us/018429 ...by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:26- Categories:
- Apple News,
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- Apple iPhone
iOS users are 52 per cent more likely to be loyal users than those who use Android .
The issue of user retention is a hot one for developers, as there's evidence that the vast majority of customers download once and never interact with the product at all.
However, in the age of freemium and better analytics data, the signs are that this is changing.
New data from Localytics suggests that in 3Q 3010, 26 per cent of downloaded apps were only used once. But this number fell to 22 per cent for 3Q 2011.
Meanwhile, the proportion of those who used an app more than ten times in the following months grew from 26 per cent to 31 per cent.
It turns out there are major differences in loyalty across different OSs.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...in-year/018433 ...by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:24- Categories:
- Android News
Exec says the co-branded device will take aim at Amazon.
In the past, Google has partnered with Samsung and Motorola to release an official co-branded Google device, and Taiwan-based Asustek is the next in line to team with the Android creator for its first tablet.
But with the iPad trouncing all rivals time and time again, can the Google Asus tablet hope to attract Apple's consumers?
Possibly not, as Reuters reports an Asustek executive, that says the forthcoming tablet will focus its attempts to steal the Amazon Kindle Fire's thunder, rather than the iPad's.
Of course, said Fire thunder slowed in Q1, when sales fell to 700,000 from an impressive four million in Q4 – when the device was launched.
The exec, said: "It's targeting Amazon. The Kindle is based on Google's platform but with its own service, so Google has to launch its own service, too."
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...le-fire/018437 ...by Published on June 27th, 2012 22:20- Categories:
- Apple iPhone
Eye-watering funds have been generated in five years.
Apple's iPhone was launched on June 29th 2007, and new data from Strategy Analytics says that the family of five – iPhone, 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S – is responsible for revenues of $150 billion.
Meanwhile, more than 250 million iPhones have been shipped in the device's five year existence on the market.
Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics, said: "The iPhone portfolio has become a huge generator of cash and profit for Apple and it reaches its fifth birthday at the top of its game.
"However, there are emerging signs that the iPhone’s next five years could get tougher. Some mobile operators are becoming concerned about the high level of subsidies they spend on the iPhone, while Samsung is expanding its popular Galaxy portfolio and providing Apple with more credible competition."
Click here for an iPhone infographic, which observes, the good, the bad and the funny events that have unfolded since the device's release.
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